Apala Majumdar is a British applied mathematician specialising in the mathematics of liquid crystals. She is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the

University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

Education and career

Majumdar did her undergraduate studies at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

. As a graduate student at Bristol, she also worked with Hewlett Packard Laboratories. She was awarded a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Bristol in 2006; her dissertation, ''Liquid crystals and tangent unit-vector fields in polyhedral geometries'', was jointly supervised by Jonathan Robbins and Maxim Zyskin. After working as a Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, where she became notorious for her love of the first dimensional heat equation and an urgency to derive from first principles, she moved to the

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

in 2012, having been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in 2011. At Bath she became a Reader and the Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics (2018-2019). In 2019 she was appointed as a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the

Recognition

The British Liquid Crystal Society gave Majumdar their Young Scientist Award in 2012. The London Mathematical Society gave her their

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in 2015. In 2019 she was the winner of the academic category of the FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards.

References

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